Observational study of organisational responses of 17 US hospitals over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic has required significant modifications of hospital care. The objective of this study was to examine the operational approaches taken by US hospitals over time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting and participants

This was a prospective observational study of 17 geographically diverse US hospitals from February 2020 to February 2021.

Outcomes and analysis

We identified 42 potential pandemic-related strategies and obtained week-to-week data about their use. We calculated descriptive statistics for use of each strategy and plotted percent uptake and weeks used. We assessed the relationship between strategy use and hospital type, geographic region and phase of the pandemic using generalised estimating equations (GEEs), adj

SUBMITTER: Choo EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410813 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature